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I am in the prime of senility.
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To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind...
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“Only a novel”… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of...
Quote #3104
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the...
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
Quote #13799
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a...
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Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have...